My latest painting

This was a difficult subject for me so I had to stylize it quite a bit but I think I captured the spirit of the birches without the leaves and the birdhouses. I was very attracted to this scene when I was visiting Edmonton.

I had trouble getting the colour right for the birches so decided to just use my bottle of parchment which is a light beige rather than silvery white. After I did that I decided to try again for the colour and somehow it worked now that I had the parchment as a base. So, I learned when you can't get the colour you want, go for something close then try painting over it. Seemed to work quite well in this case.




"Prairie Birches with Birdhouses"
14 x 18 acrylic on canvas
Nov/07